hospitals

New Billing Practices at San Francisco's Largest Public Hospital Could Help Low-Income Patients Save Money

By Jamie Ducharme

Doctors and Nurses Treat Gunshot Wounds All the Time. Now They're Preparing for Active Shootings at Their Own Hospitals

By Jamie Ducharme

What Happens When a Hurricane Hits a Hospital: This Week in Health

By Alexandra Sifferlin

What Happens When a Hurricane Hits a Hospital

By Alice Park
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Attacks on Health Care Facilities Increased in 2016

372 people were killed last year, and hundreds more were injured

By Alexandra Sifferlin

The Scary Reason Healthy People Die After an ER Visit

It's not because they're old or sick

By Mandy Oaklander

This Hospital Empowered NICU Babies With Superhero Costumes

Move over, Batman and Superman, there’s a new batch of heroes

By Melissa Locker

5 Dead in 'Unprecedented' Houston Floods

Authorities have declared a state of emergency

By Rishi Iyengar

How Hollywood Changes Movies to Appease Foreign Censors

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By The Aspen Institute

Texas Now Allows Guns in Mental Hospitals

Employees and patients are still prohibited from carrying firearms on the premises

By Denver Nicks

Your Mood Can Predict How Well Your Surgery Goes: Study

A new study sheds light on an unexpected factor in surgical outcomes.

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Nepal Border Blockade Leads to Shortage of Medicines

Lack of fuel also means firewood must be used to cook food for patients

By Rishi Iyengar

We Might Be on the Verge of a War in Space

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By The Aspen Institute

This website is like a Yelp for hospitals

You can check the grade of your hospital to see how it stacks up against others

By Kia Kokalitcheva/Fortune

Are "Micro-Schools" the Future of Education?

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By The Aspen Institute

Inside Nepal's Hospital Crisis

The country's health care system is under enormous pressure after a deadly earthquake

By Alexandra Sifferlin

The Epic Scale of Lobbying Cash

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By The Aspen Institute

Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 19

1. Instead of fighting about the Iran nuclear talks, Congress and the White House should be planning smart sanctions in case a deal falls through.By Elizabeth Rosenberg and Richard Nephew in Roll Call2. DARPA thinks...

By The Aspen Institute

U.S. Hospitals Get Better at Preventing Infections

Progress in combatting a worldwide problem

By Alexandra Sifferlin

What I Learned From My $190,000 Surgery

The author of "America's Bitter Pill" recounts his own experience with our broken healthcare system

By Steven Brill
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